? Obs. Also 7 smyris. [a. Gr. σμίρις or σμύρις.] = EMERY sb. 1.
1610–. [see EMERY sb. 1].
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Isagoge e 8 b. All may have Sculpture by the powder of smiris, except the adamant.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 74. The best sort of Smiris serves for several uses.
1778. W. Pryce, Min. Cornub., 65. Those which are mistaken by many for distinct sorts of Fossils, are the Hæmatites, or Bloodstone;… the Smiris, or Emery.
1803. Phil. Trans., XCIII. 82. It is not … improbable, but that some other substance has been occasionally denoted by the term smiris, emeril, or emery.
